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Existence Plus NOVEMBER 2020 side 2 issue Flipbook PDF
-pg 3b :The Heart of dance (Serena Spears) -pg 9b: W>E>S>L (Laurie Anne Creus) pg 12b: Addicting Art (Lanny Dil
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-Pg 3a :The living Dream (Dilpreet Wilson)
-pg 9a : why She Loc (Ivory)
-pg 13a :Addicting Art (Lanny Dillavou)
-pg 3b :The Heart of dance (Serena Spears)
-pg 9b: W>E>S>L (Laurie Anne Creus)
pg 12b: Addicting Art (Lanny Dillavou
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Table of Contents
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Awareness- Of - Today
Awareness - Community-Magazine
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The Heart of Dance
serena Serena Spears is a Brooklyn-based fusion dance artist, performer, teacher, and choreographer. With three decades of dance experience and a diverse background in dance forms that span the globe, Serena focuses on creating seamlessly integrated and moving fusion that inspires people around the world. Serena’s passion for dance started at an early age, beginning as a child learning ballet and tap. She shifted into hip-hop and theater dance in high school and spent two years as a dance major at Long Island University studying movement forms 3b
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from ballet and Cunningham modern, to West African and yoga. In 2006, a friend introduced her to MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenic, and/or Turkish) dance, and she quickly fell into deep study. In 2010, she transitioned to contemporary fusion bellydance and began studying with Sera Solstice and eventually traveling, teaching,
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and performing internationally as a solo fusion artist. Around the same time, she started to cross over into the cirque realm of movement with aerial and fire-based flow arts, like silks, lyra, pole, poi, fire fans, and palm torches. In 2014, Serena had her first experience with partner dancing and, in one weekend, it completely changed the trajectory of her dance dreams. She started learning Afro-Latin and partner dancing, spending the next
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six years exploring salsa, bachata, chachachá, rumba, Afro-Cuban folklore, tango, samba, and, most recently, Brazilian zouk and lambada. Combining these new training pathways with the old gave her not just a unique perspective on body movement and dynamics, but it also solidified her love of dance as a healing art, a way to connect with others, explore vulnerability, and create space
to build a loving community. Her new goals include learning to lead as well as follow, supporting the cultural origins and people of these dance forms, and helping foster a dance community focused on representation, equality, inclusion, safety, and enjoyment for all. One step at a time. 8b
Laurie Anne Creus’s music is best described as cinematic soul. Her music moves with the melodic and lyrical heartaches of ballads and grooves with the driving heartbeat of R&B. Laurie Anne has been performing for over 15 years. She became the vocalist and keyboardist for rock, hip-hop band KB Jones and the Kontraband where they went on to play at South by Southwest in 2015 opening for Ghostface Killah and Rae Kwon from Wu-Tang Clan. She was also the vocalist for jazz duo Pete & L.A. and 9b
What
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together they hosted Jazz After Hours, a local jazz concert series, at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington for 3 years. Web page
https://www.lacreusmusic.com/
Music and Press releases https://linktr.ee/lacreusmusic
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Fitness apparrel and equipment
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LANNY DILAVOU Addicting Art
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Lanny Dillavou.
Local self-taught multi-disciplinary artist from the suburbs of Chicago with an immense eye for detail. Owner of Vicarious One Studios with big goals to inspire other recovering addicts to find sobriety within art. Currently focusing on his “Street Inspired Pop Art” and “Pop Surrealism” porfolio. 15b